(Genesis 1:1) Someone has rightly said, "The Christian life is a series of new beginnings." Sin will always bring you to a dead end. God brings you to open doors. As we begin a new series from the first eleven chapters of Genesis, take advantage of the new beginning God is offering you today! (081240101)    Automated Transcript: Someone has rightly said that life is a series of new beginnings.I love that because I can testify and tell you that life is a series of transitions.Maybe you're living through one of those transitions right now.The reality is, in the transitions of life, when things are changing, one of two things is going to happen.Either it's going to just be the end of something, or it's going to be a new beginning.I'm glad to tell you today, on the authority of the Word of God, that our God is the God of new beginnings.Sin will always bring you to a dead end.The devil closes in on you, and brings you to nothing.But the Lord never brings you to a dead end.The Lord brings you to another open door.You don't hit a wall with the Lord.Instead, a door opens, and God says, alright, here is the way to begin again.And so, I want to take you to the opening pages of Scripture, to the book of Genesis.Now, the opening chapters of Genesis, not just Genesis chapter one, but the first eleven chapters of the book of Genesis are in many ways the beginnings of everything.Someone said and observed that Genesis 1 through 11 is a seedbed of doctrine, that every major doctrine found in the rest of Scripture is introduced, at least in seed form, in the opening pages of the Word of God.Isn't that just like the Lord?God's Word, a progressive revelation, moving from the known to the unknown, starting with the most simple thing and then progressively showing us more and more until it's fully developed and we finally understand what it is God wants us to understand.And so, in this emphasis on new beginnings, I want to go back to the Book of Beginnings, to the Book of Genesis, and study with you the first eleven chapters.Let's get some foundational truth, some beginning truth that will help us to begin again.Today, we start in the most obvious place, you have to begin, where God begins in Genesis chapter one and verse number one, you know it by heart.Say it with me, would you please?In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.And so, in the very first verse of holy scripture, we have introduced to us not only God, but God's great desire and design for all of us.These are the basics, the building blocks, the beginning principles.What are they?Well, first of all, we learn that God is, because the Bible simply states, in the beginning, God.Don't begin with the reality around you, begin with the reality before you and above you.Begin with God.Everything begins with God.Scripture does not seek to prove to us the existence of God.It simply states it.And you will have to either accept it or reject it.You'll either have to believe what the Bible says, or say, no, I don't believe that at all.But if you're going to take God at His word, and I recommend that you do, then you must begin with this.God is, He is the eternally existent one.You see, this world has a beginning, but God has no beginning because He's the everlasting one.The oldest Psalm in the Bible, Psalm 90, written by Moses, says, from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.Literally, the word everlasting means vanishing point.So from one vanishing point to the other vanishing point, God is God.Go back before all of the world was created, before time existed, and God is.Go all the way to the end.Fast forward to the end of the story, when the world burns up and everything disappears, that is familiar to us, and God will still be.He is the eternal God.The parallel to this, of course, in the New Testament, is John.John chapter 1, verse number 1, says, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.The same was in the beginning with God.All